★★★★★
Dishwalla put a face to the huge Polygram/Universal merger, all but disappearing after '96's one-million-plus-selling debut Pet Your Friends. Now signed to a smaller label, the band is back with their third post-grunge rock disc, Opaline. With Middle Eastern top notes (The Tea Party's MO for nearly a decade), Dishwalla still dish out warm rock tunes highlighted by the flexible and mellifluous vocals of J.R. Richards...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Like many mid-'90s alternative rock bands, Santa Barbara's Dishwalla are probably doomed to one-hit wonder status, despite the quality songwriting pervading 1995's Pet Your Friends. The album sat in record stores collecting dust for over a year before its third single, "Counting Blue Cars" (best known for its lyric "Tell me all your thoughts on God/'Cause I really want to meet her"), became a number one smash on rock and alternative radio...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
In mid-1996, Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars" was one of the most overplayed songs of the summer. It was a melodic masterpiece of passion for radio fans and powerful in making the bandmembers into international superstars. And You Think You Know What Life's About (1998) didn't fare as well, but the band's third effort, Opaline, marks a return to form: heavy guitar work layered over J.R. Richards' heartily sweet vocals...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
And You Think You Know What Life's About is a title full of import. It signals that Dishwalla wants to be taken seriously and not dismissed as a one-hit alterna-wonder. Similiarly, the record is filled with self-conscious moody sounds and lyrics...Tempering their post-grunge template with synths, drum loops and swooping noise, Dishwalla has offered an album that is sonically different than Pet Your Friends, but they essentially offer the same type of songs.....
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27